Deaths in August 2002
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2002.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 2002
1
- Hector Abdelnour, 80, Venezuelan Navy officer.
- Francisco Arcellana, 85, Filipino writer, poet and journalist.
- Navin Chandra Barot, 78, Indian politician.
- Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper (silver medal winner in men's long jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
- Adolf Glunz, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
- Henry Mazer, 84, American / Taiwanese conductor and recording artist.
- Moutlakgola P.K. Nwako, 79, Botswana politician and diplomat.
- Don Owen, 90, American professional wrestling promoter.
- Russ Rebholz, 93, American football player.
- Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.
- Geoffrey Paulson Townsend, 91, English architect.
2
- Joe Allison, 77, American songwriter, radio and television personality and record producer.
- Roberto Cobo, 72, Mexican actor (Los Olvidados, The Place Without Limits).
- Avraham Givelber, 92, Israeli politician.
- Kevin Hardiman, 87, Australian rules footballer.
- Ilona Kolonits, 80, Hungarian documentary film director and news correspondent.
- Roy Kral, 80, American jazz pianist and vocalist, congestive heart failure.
- Magda László, 90, Hungarian operatic soprano.
- Sammy Onyango, 41, Kenyan soccer player, traffic accident.
3
- Edward Brodney, 92, American artist, known for his drawings and paintings of World War II.
- Kathleen Hughes-Hallett, 84, Canadian Olympic fencer.
- Peter Miles, 64, American actor.
- Carmen Silvera, 80, British television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!).
- John G. Zimmerman, 74, American photographer, an innovator in sports photojournalism.
4
- William R. Crawford Jr., 74, American diplomat and ambassador (Yemen, Cyprus).
- Millard Lang, 89, American soccer and lacrosse player.
- Mike Payne, 40, American Major League Baseball pitcher (Atlanta Braves), EEE.
- Friedel Sellschop, 72, South African scientist.
5
- Jes Peter Asmussen, 73, Danish Iranologist, his research focused on the religions of Iran.
- Peter Costigan, 67, Australian journalist and Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1999 to 2001.
- Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor (Passions, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and stunt performer (Baby Geniuses), complications from a heart condition.
- Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960.
- Willis Hudlin, 96, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, New York Giants).
- Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman).
- Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers).
- Junius Scales, 85, American activist and leader of the Communist Party of the United States of America.
- Winifred Watson, 95, English writer (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day).
6
- Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver, liver failure.
- Edsger Dijkstra, 72, computer scientist.
- John Fage, 81, British historian.
- Justin Meyer, 63, American vintner and enologist, heart attack.
- Christopher Speer, 28, U.S. Army combat medic and an armed member of, K.I.A.
7
- Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.
- Molly Harrison, 92, English museum curator and author, hypertension.
- Roy LoPresti, 73, American aeronautical engineer.
- Al Smith, 56, Canadian ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.
8
- Bernard Chidzero, 75, Zimbabwean politician, Finance Minister (1983–1995).
- Bruce Johnston, 63, American criminal, cancer.
- Chen Junsheng, 74, Chinese politician.
- John N. McLaughlin, 83, American lieutenant general, heart attack.
- Charles Poletti, 99, American lawyer and politician.
- Kapitolina Rumiantseva, 76, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
- Doris Buchanan Smith, 68, American author children's books, ALS.
9
- George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician, known for his work on quality control and the likelihood principle.
- Don Chastain, 66, American actor and singer (Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Colt .45, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-O).
- Trần Độ, 78, Vietnamese politician and Lieutenant General of the People's Army of Vietnam.
- Ruud van Feggelen, 78, Dutch water polo player and coach (bronze medal in water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
- Jake Fendley, 73, American professional basketball player (Northwestern University, Fort Wayne Pistons).
- Ray D. Free, 92, Major General in the U.S. Army Reserves.
- Erna Furman, 76, Austrian-American child psychoanalyst.
- Meredith Gardner, 89, American linguist and codebreaker.
- Peter Matz, 73, American musician, composer, arranger and conductor, lung cancer.
- Bruce McCaffrey, 63, Canadian politician.
- Paul Samson, 49, English guitarist, cancer.
10
- Robert Frank Borkenstein, 89, American police officer and inventor of the breathalyzer.
- Colin Eggleston, 60, Australian film and television director and writer (Long Weekend, Homicide).
- Michael Houser, 40, American guitarist, pancreatic cancer.
- Kristen Nygaard, 75, Norwegian computer scientist and politician, heart attack.
- Eugene Odum, 88, American biologist.
- Mordecai Waxman, 85, American rabbi, prominent conservative, known for confronting Pope John Paul II.
- Doris Wishman, 90, American film director, screenwriter and producer, known for low-budget "B" movies.
11
- Nancy Chaffee, 73, American tennis player (1950, 1951, 1952 singles and doubles U.S. Indoor Champion), cancer.
- Per Cock-Clausen, 89, Danish figure skater (13-time Danish National Champion, figure skating at the Winter Olympics: 1948, 1952).
- Mick Dunne, 73, Irish sports journalist.
- Jiří Kolář, 87, Czech poet and writer.
- Hermann Pálsson, 81, Icelandic language scholar and translator.
- Galen Rowell, 61, wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and climber, plane crash.
- Richard Wood, Baron Holderness, 81, British politician (Member of Parliament for Bridlington).
12
- Michael De-la-Noy, 68, British journalist and author (The Queen Behind the Throne).
- Sir John Rennie, 85, British diplomat.
- Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
- Étienne Trocmé, 77, French historian and theologian.
- Dame Marjorie Williamson, 89, British educator, physicist and university administrator.
13
- Jack Creel, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
- Ulises Ramos, 82, Chilean footballer and manager.
- Al Vande Weghe, 86, American competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
- Celso Nogoy Guevarra, 79, 1st Bishop of Balanga (November 8, 1975–April 8, 1998).
14
- Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor (Dr. No, Goldfinger) and director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service).
- Mary Pickford, 100, British neuroendocrinologist.
- Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.
- Neal Travis, 62, New Zealand journalist and novelist.
- Dave Williams, 30, American singer of Drowning Pool, heart failure.
15
- Heinz Bauer, 74, German mathematician.
- Jesse Brown, 58, American United States Marine and United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
- George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.
- Arnie Moser, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
- Kyle Rote, 73, American gridiron football player.
- King-lui Wu, 84, Chinese-American architect, early advocate of the importance of daylight in architecture.
- Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician.
16
- Edith Addams, 95, Belgian-American Olympic fencer (Belgium), costume designer for theater, ballet and film and a theatrical producer.
- Janusz Bardach, 83, Polish-American Siberian gulag survivor and renowned plastic surgeon.
- Allan George Bromley, 55, American computer scientist, historian of computing.
- Jeff Corey, 88, American actor (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, In Cold Blood, Little Big Man).
- Martin Deutsch, 85, Austrian-American physicist and professor of physics at MIT, known as the discoverer of positronium.
- Morgan "Bill" Evans, 92, American horticulturalist and Disney landscape designer, transformed eighty acres of Anaheim into Disneyland.
- Abu Nidal, 65, Palestinian terrorist.
- Sergey Perets, 32, Russian police officer.
- Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.
- John Roseboro, 69, American baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Washington Senators).
- Stephen Yokich, 66, American labor union activist and President of the United Auto Workers.
17
- Jimmy Bloodworth, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies), heart attack.
- John Charles, 57, English footballer, cancer.
- Glyndwr Renowden, 73, Welsh Anglican priest, Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF.
- Rushyendramani, 85, Indian singer, dancer, and actress.
- Benjamin Thompson, 84, American architect.
- Tony Zemaitis, 67, British guitar maker.
18
- Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev, 33, Chechen rebel leader and top official in the rebel government.
- Jonnie Barnett, 56, American musician and songwriter ("The Chain of Love"), appeared in Nashville and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie.
- Carter L. Burgess, 85, American public servant, business executive and diplomat (Assistant Secretary of Defense, Ambassador to Argentina).
- Dame Elizabeth Chesterton, 86, British architect and town planner.
- Edward Crew, 84, British air marshal and an ace nightfighter pilot in World War II.
- David Keynes Hill, 87, British biophysicist.
- Dean Riesner, 83, American screenwriter (Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, The Enforcer).
19
- Alastair Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 82, British botanical artist and art critic.
- Eduardo Chillida, 78, Spanish Basque sculptor.
- Irving Copi, 85, American philosopher, logician and textbook author (Introduction to Logic).
- Satchidananda Saraswati, 87, Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adept.
- Sunday Silence, 16, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.
20
- Wesley Bennett, 89, American basketball player.
- Chris Columbus, 100, American jazz drummer.
- Robert H. Dedman Sr., 76, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.
- John Willett, 85, British journalist and translator of the works of Bertolt Brecht into English.
21
- O. A. Bushnell, 89, American microbiologist, professor and writer.
- Bob Cristofani, 81, Australian cricketer.
- Jimmy Deane, 81, British Trotskyist and one of the founders of the Revolutionary Socialist League.
- Pereji Solomon, 92, Indian bishop.
- Joseph H. Wales, 94, American ichthyologist, professor and pathologist.
22
- Mikayil Abdullayev, 80, Azerbaijani painter.
- Victor Nendaka Bika, 79, Congolese politician.
- Mark Bucci, 78, American Broadway, film and television composer (The 13 Clocks, Seven in Darkness, Human Experiments).
- Kevin Coghlan, 72, Australian rules footballer.
- Bruce Duncan Guimaraens, 66, Portuguese wine maker.
- Teodor Keko, 43, Albanian writer, journalist, and politician.
- Richard Lippold, 87, American sculptor.
- Harold Lowes, 75, Australian lawyer and politician.
- Abe Zvonkin, 92, Canadian track and field athlete.
23
- Stafford Beer, 75, British theorist, consultant and author, known for his work in operational research and management cybernetics.
- Dennis Fimple, 61, American character actor (Petticoat Junction, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Green Acres).
- Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.
- Robert van Scoyk, 74, American television writer, producer and story editor.
- Wayne Simmons, 32, American Football player, single-car crash.
- Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player (New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
24
- Ted Ashley, 80, American film studio executive (chairman of Warner Bros) and talent agent, complications following heart surgery.
- Alan Brash, 89, New Zealand clergyman.
- Thomas H. Brown, 85, American politician.
- Hugh Cruttwell, 83, English teacher of drama and principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
- Nikolay Guryanov, 93, Russian Orthodox priest.
- Cornelis Johannes van Houten, 82, Dutch astronomer.
- Johnny Wilson, 86, American professional football player (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Rams).
25
- Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat, known for shielding thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.
- Audrey Barker, 69, British artist.
- Raúl Chibás, 86, Cuban politician, military officer and close associate of Fidel Castro, defected to U.S. in 1960.
- Dorothy Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist.
- Raju, 41, Sri Lankan member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
- Åke Söderlund, 77, Swedish racewalking athlete.
- William Warfield, 82, American concert bass-baritone singer and actor, complications following neck injuries from a fall.
26
- Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev, 40, Chechen warlord, killed in action.
- Walter J. D. Annand, 79, Scottish aeronautical engineer, academic and author.
- Thomas Gordon, 84, American clinical psychologist.
- Vincent Massey, 75, Australian biochemist and enzymologist.
- Georg Werner, 98, Swedish swimmer (bronze medal in men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics).
- Harlow Wilcox, 59, American session musician from Norman, Oklahoma, heart attack.
27
- Lawrence Batley, 91, English businessman and philanthropist, a pioneer in the wholesale cash and carry business in the U.K.
- Edwin Sill Fussell, 80, American scholar of English literature.
- A. S. Gnanasambandan, 85, Indian Tamil language writer, scholar and literary critic.
- George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).
- John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic for The New York Times for four decades.
28
- David Bierk, 58, American-Canadian artist.
- Fritz Feldmann, 86, Swiss rower (men's coxed eights rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
- Kay Gardner, 62, American musician, composer, author, and Dianic priestess, heart attack.
- Jerri Mumford, 93, British-Canadian servicewoman during WWII.
- George Riley, 79, Canadian politician.
- Rudolf Schnackenburg, 88, German Catholic priest and New Testament scholar.
29
- Betty Forbes, 85, New Zealand track and field athlete.
- Phoebe Gilman, 62, Canadian-American author and illustrator, leukemia.
- Lance Macklin, 82, British racing driver.
- Paul Tripp, 91, children's musician, author, songwriter, and actor.
- Anatoliy Yulin, 73, Soviet (Belarusian) Olympic athlete (men's 400 metres hurdles: 1952, 1956, men's 4 × 400 metres relay: 1956).
30
- Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.
- Mariya Bayda, 80, Russian medical orderly during World War II.
- Maia Berzina, 91, Russian geographer, cartographer and ethnologer.
- Pepsi Bethel, 83, American jazz dancer, choreographer and dance troupe leader (Pepsi Bethel Authentic Jazz Dance Theater).
- Dave Dalby, 51, American professional football player (UCLA, Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders).
- J. Lee Thompson, 88, British film director (The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes), congestive heart failure.
- Horst Wendlandt, 80, German film producer.
- Zaid ibn Shaker, 67, Jordanian politician and soldier (Prime Minister of Jordan).
31
- Farhad, 58, Iranian pop, rock, and folk musician, hepatitis C.
- Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician.
- Lucas Johnson, 61, American visual artist, heart failure.
- Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.
- George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.